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Release 1.3.2 includes upgrades (and one bug fix) to XML_PullParser_getText(), together with clarified and revised documentation for this method and several others.

XML_PullProcessor is an XML token processing class for PHP. With releases 1.3.0/1.3.1, XML_PullProcessor incorporates Namespace support directly into the XML_PullParser module itself, replacing the subclasses XML_PullParser_NS and XML_PullParser_NS_doc which previously provided it with Namespace facilities and enhancing the earlier functionality.

Included in the XML_PullParser family is eXcavator, an XML query processing class which provides XQuery-like functionality to XML_PullParser. Because eXcavator is built on top of XML_PullParser, its most recent release (1.0.5) has also been able to include namespace support. Using eXcavator gives the developer complete access to all the facilitities of XML_PullParser. For many applications, the two classes can work in tandem, with eXcavator acting as a powerful front-end to XML_PullParser.

XML_PullParser 1.2.0 is a major new release which adds error reporting and tracing to earlier versions. Errors are handled by a new class,
XML_PullParser_Errors. User defined errors are also supported; these are pushed onto XML_PullParser's error stack and become part of any trace, making it possible to track errors in user code back to problems which may have originated in the use of XML_PullParser itself.
Error reporting is explained in the Manual. ... read more

XML_PullParser for PHP now has a newly upgraded web site, still at the same URL:
http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser/

XML_PullParser for PHP has been nominated for inclusion on Linux LInks. It will be found at the followng url:

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Web/Development/Tools/

This release fixed a sporadic bug which reported an XML_ERROR_JUNK_AFTER_DOC_ELEMENT error after the completed parsing of certain documents.

It adds a new method:
array XML_PullParser_deleteBlanks($token)
This method removes all blank CDATA elements from a tokenized array. It was sparked by the fact that different versions of the PHP/expat parser treat blank CDATA differently, causing XML_PullParser to end up with tokenized arrays of different sizes.... read more

Initial Sourceforge Release of XML_PullParser
Home page:
http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser

XML_PullParser moves the API of the PHP XML facility from an event-based model to a token-based model. Instead of processing data as it is passed from the parser to callbacks, a script using PullParser requests "tokens" from XML_PullParser_getToken() and a set of helper functions. Tokens are arrays representing XML structures, which become available in the order in which they appear in the document being parsed. ... read more